Des Herrn Johann von Lery Reise in Brasilien.

by: Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611; Görlitz (Dresden, Germany) fmo RIBRL

Publication date: 1794

Topics: Villegaignon, Nicolas Durand de, 1510-1571?, Indians of South America, Indians of South America, Tupi Indians, Tupi Indians, Tupi language, Tupi language, Natural history, Indian linguistics, Imprint 1794, genealogy

Publisher: Münster : im Verlag der Platvoetischen Buchhandlung

Collection: jcbindigenous; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: John Carter Brown Library

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: German

Translation of the author's: Historia navigationis in Brasiliam quae et America dicitur, first printed Geneva, 1586, itself a translation of: Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, first printed La Rochelle, 1578

The author gives an account of Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon's colony in Brazil and the Tupi Indians who inhabited the country

"Gespräch, gleich beym Eintritte in Brasilien, zwischen den Eingebornen Tuupinambolsiern, Tuupinenkin, und Europäern. Brasilianisch und Deutsch", p. 331-360, contains numerous phrases in the Tupi language translated into the German language, a discussion of grammar with examples, and a comparative glossary of words in Tupi and German. There are also numerous words and phrases in the Tupi language scattered throughout the text

Includes musical notations with words in the Tupi language on p. 203, 276, and 280-281

Signatures: )( ()(1 verso blank) A-2B 2C-2D (2C2, 2D4 versos blank)

Engraved printer's vignette on title page

Sabin

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.)

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Görlitz: bookstamp on title page